People and animals have always been divided in the history of mankind. This allowed the first calmly hunt second breeding farms, torture in the name of science. However, today, an uncomfortable question that animals have feelings and intelligence that characterize the personality increasingly stands in front of people. People have always suspected, that the similarities between them and animals is based not only science and religion. However, today, in the terms of globalization, overpopulation occurs not only within human population, but also animal one. Homeless dogs and their attacks on people is indeed a local, but important problem, which will be discussed in this paper.
There are actually two diversified opinions regarding this issue – one claims that people should support homeless animals, another one tells that stay dogs should be sterilized. Animals have never had rights, so that there is no need to ascribe rights to them now. Many attempts of local activists have been trying to project a so-called environmental look on this issue, by concluding the fact that people should take care of animals and so on. Moreover, if the dog ‘offended’ a person – that’s a people’s fault. Dog does not bark on good people – is a popular thesis nowadays, so if one does not want to be bitten – one should not come close to the dog. It is a pretty bad solution, but still it could be considered as a good advice. However, the second point of all this talk about animal rights represents the reverse side of democracy. Hence, the next popular advice – is to feed the unfortunate dogs on the street, since they will die without human help. Animal rights activists managed to convince the city authorities that destroying stray animals is not only inhumane, but also futile. Allegedly, nature abhors the gaps, and those animals, which were not managed to be caught, will bear more and more puppies.
In order to solve this issue and make it clear to local community, firstly it is needed to present it to people. It could be informal meeting at university campus or wide spreading the advertisements with statistical data concerning the animal attacks on people. The method, which is supposed to be proposed is both ‘on the human side’ and ‘on the animal side’. Sterilizing the dogs happens only through local authorities and this could not be denied, but it could be changed a little bit. The main positive aspect, which is wanted to be populated, is the attention of the population to the problem, an increasing number of people who really care. That’s the main aim of this project. Talking about the problem – is the first step to its solution. It is indeed possible to promote overall increasing number of shelters and volunteers that willing to walk the dogs, to collect food and care products for animals. However, a decisive step for the defenders of animal rights and for complete solution of this problem is to create rules at the legislative level, the introduction of fines for irresponsible behaviour towards the animals, as well as compulsory licensing of owners. Finally, there is one more obstacle to success within this issue. Animal attacks could be neglected in humanistic way only in the first world countries. Unfortunately, developing countries would not promote such a technique, due to the fact that society there has more important problems for the everyday life. Taking care of homeless animals is only a background issue there, so unfortunately this method would not make sense there.
Work Cited
"One At A Time - PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS". Novoiceunheard.org. Web. 21 Jan.
2017.
